Mosul Falls To Militants, Iraqi Forces Flee Northern City

by Wochit
0:44 mins

Mosul Falls To Militants, Iraqi Forces Flee Northern City

by Wochit
0:44 mins

An al Qaeda splinter group seized control of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, putting security forces to flight in a spectacular show of strength against the Shi'ite-led Baghdad government. The capture of the northern city of 2 million by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Sunni Muslims waging sectarian war on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian frontier - complements ISIL's grip on key western towns and followed four days of heavy fighting in Mosul and the border province of Nineveh around it.